The weekly badge review's theme of the week: Bands 

This week we bring you Daniel Ramone, also known on Allmightys as darruda. Daniel is our recent gold prize winner from Pattern Battle competition with his Slum design. Few words from Daniel, enjoy!



What inspires you Daniel?
I Always say that my work is a mix of all kinds of art and things I see. Every moment of my life is influenced by a different one, which makes my work much better and a unique.

Who are you favourite artists and why?
I love much of the work of Salvador Dali. Im my opinion he is one of the best .The compositions, the style ,and a life story behind art represented on surreal brushstrokes. Roy Lichtenstein is one of my favorites particularly in the use of different patterns in his works. I am very influenced too by an artist from New Zealand called Glenn Jones, an excelent t-shirt designer.




How do you produce your artworks and what mediums do you use?
I use to burn my brain all the time thinking until the idea come clean in my head. Then I jump to Google and search for some images for reference. Step three is to sketch some ideas on the paper using graffiti and then cover with ink nanking. I make a scan and go to Photoshop to make some retouchs. After this process is only transform into curves and finish in Illustrator.



What are the websites you visit regularly and where do you get your inspiration?
I am always visiting sites of illustration and t-shirts designs. I love the illustrationmundo.com, threadless and designbyhumans. I am always visiting others designers portfolios so I can always learn something more from this artists.




What do you do when you are not designing?

When I am not designing, I try studying, reading magazines and books of art. I use to go the beach and playing soccer, where I can work my creativity.


What do you think about Allmightys?
Allmightys is one of the major places where the designer can expand their knowledge about art and promote their jobs. It’s the place where I found respect and admiration from the artists involved.


Anything else you would like to add?
It´s a great pleasure to become part of Allmightys and find good people and great designers. Thank you all!

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You can read more about Daniel by visiting his profile here.

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Say hello to wotto, our recent silver prize winner with his Y2K Part Deux. The designs in currently being printed and should be available in store within few weeks. We have also added some work by wotto and a little "about" on his new designer profile.

Check it out!

You can also more work by wotto on his personal site: www.wotto.co.uk

"I paint, doodle and draw the world as I see it. I like characters and attempt to take cute into dark places. I use a range of traditional materials and digital packages to create my art...more

The weekly badge review, these are the colourful features from Monday Sept. 22 to Saturday Sept. 27: 

This week we bring you the designer of "Don’t Break My Beat", Nuno Lopes, our special selection winner of Out and About competition. Few quick words about Nuno for the weekend. Enjoy!



What inspires you Nuno?
A little bit of everything that surrounds me, music, skateboard, read graphic design books and research in internet, viewing work of other designers. Preferably vector art.

Who are you favourite artists and why?
Well, to be honest I have no favorite artist, as autodidactic, I have no knowledge of famous artists. Those that I know are from deviantart and behance.net, There are so many that It is difficult for me give you the names.

How do you produce your artworks and what mediums do you use?
First I do a search on an idea that I have to see if this has been done or not and/or how it was done.
Then I draw on paper first and then transfer to computer.
The software that I usually use are Photoshop and Freehand.
One of the things that I also like is to make presentations of the work simulating 3D with Photoshop.



What are the websites you visit regularly and where do you get your inspiration?
- deviantart.com
- behance.net
- designyoutrust.com
- allmightys.com
- lafraise.com
- mangacurta.com
Best site for inspiration is behance.net. We can see great works of great artists.

What do you do when you are not designing?
Rest/sleep, go out with my girlfriend, play PC games, surf the internet, see movies.



What do you think about Allmightys?
I think it's a good site, I could say maybe one of the best in this category that I know, because we see great quality in the works and the fact that you be demanding in the selection/acceptance of them. This is very important for the quality of the site itself.
One detail that is also very good are the themes that you give us to create the t-shirts.

Anything else you would like to add?
I never expected work as designer/illustrator, but I think that was one of the best things that appeared in my life. Sometimes it's a hard work, but it's also addictive and rewarding.

END.

To read more about Nuno, visit his profile in the designer section.

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The weekly badge review The features from Monday Sept. 01 to Friday Sept.. 05, another "New finds, new releases" week. 

We have just added Jack Martin's profile to the page of Allmightys designers. Make sure you check it out.

Jack Martin is our recent Special Selection winner with his design Space Travel Is Easy from the Future-Past-Perfect competition.

I am a freelance illustrator that has been working professionally for four years. In that time, I have developed a distinctive style that allows me to inject my humor and skill into everything. Now, I have my own studio, Cracked Ego, where I do, not only apparel work, but posters and skateboards, too. Visit my blog to learn more about what drives me and for more links to my work.

Check out his profile here...

We have just launched a Brand New Tshirt Design Competition which we think (andhope) you'll really like because we absolutley love it!!!!!!

The theme is: TYPETASTIC

We want you to think of typos, letters, reading and writing, typewriters, rubber stamps,carvings, signs, symbols, braille, stories, books, poems, newspapers, smoke signals,notes, sms, http... in other words, all non-verbal communication.

Have Typo Crazy Fun!!!!

Dates:
Competition announced: Monday 8th September 2008
Submission Deadline: Monday 27th October 2008, 23.00 GMT
Voting Ends: Friday 31st October 2008, 23.00 GMT

more info here...

The weekly badge review The features from Monday Sept. 01 to Friday Sept.. 05, another "New finds, new releases" week. 

We have just added radiomode's profile to the page of Allmightys designers. Make sure you check it out.

Radiomode aka Budi Satria Kwan is our most recent Special Selection winner from the Future-Past-Perfect competition.

My full name is Budi Satria Kwan. I was born in Makassar, Indonesia. It was all started when I filled up all the wall surface in my home with sticks figure. I believe it was pretty bad back then, that my parents decided that I need an extra training in drawing. They put me in a drawing class with a local artist.....read more